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This is in following with how THIS special should be named according to TheTVDB (it's episode 24 of the specials season), however it is getting placed within a season that Plex is considering to be part of some series called PBS Specials. There is no metadata however, it is simply being placed within this incorrect series and I cannot fix it. I would prefer, as well, to not have to empty and reclassify everything within the Doctor Who folder because, whenever I do, a large number of episodes get misattributed to other shows and I have to rectify every single one manually

Also related, I have no season within my Doctor Who series labeled Specials. How can I fix this as well?

I found out that, for some reason, I had to change the Specials folder name to the series name. So alongside all the folders of Season 01, Season 02, Season 03, there is a folder named Doctor Who and it counts that as the Specials season, and numbering within there works normally, albeit taking a while to actually update the info and grab the metadata

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I already stated I KNOW WHERE THE FIX MATCH OPTION IS and I would prefer to NOT do the Plex Dance, for fear of having to rename 50% of 285GB of TV Show when it inevitably doesn't match correctly. Plus, if it doesn't match correctly again, and I don't have the Fix Match option, I will have no method of fixing it

I already stated I KNOW WHERE THE FIX MATCH OPTION IS and I would prefer to NOT do the Plex Dance, for fear of having to rename 50% of 285GB of TV Show when it inevitably doesn't match correctly. Plus, if it doesn't match correctly again, and I don't have the Fix Match option, I will have no method of fixing it

If the series matches then I can't see no reason why episodes won't match(assuming the nomenclature on the filenames are correct). Infact, I never seen PLEX do this. not matching episodes that is.

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